State Bulletin

Jimenez indicates that they lead years working with groups of Congress to achieve a parliamentary initiative in this regard and, as the situation is entrenched, the entity includes carry case to Spanish and European justice. Forced to surrender their savings in full Civil War, specifically in 1938, a decree of the Ministry of Finance of the Francoist, Burgos-based Government, ordered the prohibition of the possession of paper currency in course by the enemy, according to the official State Bulletin (BOE) of 1938. This ruling, moreover, ordered the seizure of paper currency printed by the Republican government from 1936, which also put into circulation some municipalities located in Republican territory and even cooperative. For this purpose, created the Fund of paper currency put into circulation by the enemy, and thus, neighbors of all Spain had to hand over their savings to the Bank of Spain, to the municipalities and private banks, and never claimed the amount paid. This is not the first case of victims of Civil war and the Franco regime which have not benefited from the Act of memory Historical going to court to claim their rights. This March the European Court of human rights admitted pending a lawsuit from the Spanish Evangelical Church (IEE), Protestant denomination oldest in Spain, Evangelical pastors who exercised during Franco’s regime are discriminated against. The reason is that the Social security of the era did not recognize the profession of Protestant pastor, so it could not quote, and the State still does not recognize your right to collect pensions for themselves and their widows. Source of the news: thousands of families of all Spain demand to collect the red money that was seized them in the dictatorship.